The Linda Norgrove Foundation

The Linda Norgrove Foundation is a grant-giving trust that funds education, health and childcare for women and children affected by the war in Afghanistan.

The Trust was set up in memory of, Scottish aid worker, Linda Norgrove who was devoted to ensuring that the people of Afghanistan would achieve prosperity and stability as their country was rebuilt. She was completely committed to her development work and she loved Afghanistan and its people. Linda was kidnapped and subsequently died during a failed rescue attempt in Afghanistan in October 2010.

The Foundation is run from the UK by Linda's parents and four other voluntary trustees. Other volunteers have developed the website and two part-time employees monitor and report on projects within Afghanistan. Linda's employer, Washington based DAI, has supported the Foundation from the very beginning.

If you’d like to read more about the Foundation, you can do so on our blogs page.

Latest Newsletter

The Foundation's latest newsletter can be viewed .
This latest newsletter provides a brief update of projects supported in 2018 and gives an update of the Foundation’s programme to provide medical scholarships for young Afghan women and surgeries for poor children and mothers.
You will also be able to read about Hanifa, the first Afghan woman to climb Afghanistan’s highest mountain. All made possible through your donations.

Financial status

We are run entirely by volunteers in the UK and are extremely proud of our minimal overheads so that money donated goes directly to needy women and children in Afghanistan. From the beginning our annual reports and accounts have been publicly available.

Further details on the Foundations finances and projects supported, can be accessed from the following links: